Wiggers is a
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patronymic surname. The given name ''Wigger'' is a form of the Germanic
Wichard Wichard may refer to:
People Given names
*Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (1724–1816), Generalfeldmarschall of the Kingdom of Prussia
*Wichard von Alvensleben (1902–82), German agriculturist, Wehrmacht Officer and Knight of the Order o ...
, from Wîh- ("battle") and -hard ("strong").
Wigger
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Variant spelling include ''Wichers'' and ''Wiggerts''. People with this surname include
* Carl J. Wiggers (1883–1963), American physiologist
**Wiggers diagram
A Wiggers diagram, named after its developer, Carl Wiggers, is a unique diagram that has been used in teaching cardiac physiology for more than a century. In the Wiggers diagram, the X-axis is used to plot time subdivided into the cardiac phases ...
, a cardiac physiology diagram he devised
*Charles Wiggers
Charles Wiggers was a Belgian racewalking, racewalker. He competed in the Athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's 10 kilometres walk, men's 10 kilometres walk at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
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(fl. 1920), Belgian racewalker
* Dirceu Wiggers de Oliveira Filho (born 1988), Brazilian football defender
*Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers
Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers (15 March 1746 – 3 March 1811) was a German botanist who wrote a flora of Holstein in 1780. A number of variants of his name exist, including "Fridrich Hindrich" and the Latinisation "Fredericus Henricus" and the alter ...
(1746–1811), German botanist
*Heinrich August Ludwig Wiggers
Heinrich August Ludwig Wiggers (12 June 1803 – 13 February 1880) was a German pharmacist, chemist and botanist born in Altenhagen (today part of the city of Springe).
Trained as a pharmacist, in 1827 he relocated to the University of Göt ...
(1803–1880), German pharmacist
*Hermann Wiggers
Hermann Wiggers (7 April 1880 – 1968) was a German international association football, footballer.
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1880 births
1968 deaths
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(1880–1968), German football defender
* (1811–1901), German theologist
*Ketlen Wiggers
Ketlen Wiggers (born 7 January 1992), commonly known as Ketlen, is a Brazilian Association football, football Forward (association football), forward who plays for Santos FC (women), Santos in Brazil and the Brazil women's national football team ...
(born 1992), Brazilian football forward
*Lone Wiggers
Lone Wiggers (born 1963, in Helsingør) is a Danish architect, one of the partners at C. F. Møller Architects. (born 1963), Danish architect
*Martin H. Wiggers
Martin Helmut Wiggers (born 31 July 1963) is a German economist, editor, author and businessman.
Education
In the 1980s Wiggers studied Business Administration at the Munich School Of Strategic Management of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Mun ...
(born 1963), German economist, editor, author and businessman
*Michaël Wiggers
Michaël Wiggers (born 8 February 1980) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a right-back for a number of clubs in Belgium.
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(born 1980), Belgian football defender
*Moritz Wiggers
Moritz Karl Georg Wiggers (October 17, 1816 – July 30, 1894), German politician, started out as a lawyer and a notary in his home town of Rostock. The Revolution of 1848 prompted him to enter public life as a representative to the Mecklenburg co ...
(1816–1894), German lawyer and revolutionary
*Namita Gupta Wiggers
Namita Gupta Wiggers is a noted expert in the field of contemporary craft, a curator, educator and a writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her prior experiences as a studio jeweler, video ethnographer/design researcher, and museum educator shape her ...
(born 1967), American contemporary craft expert, curator and writer
*Thais Souza Wiggers
Thais Souza (born Florianópolis, 24 October 1985) is a Brazilian television presenter and model. She was a showgirl in the Italian satirical series '' Striscia la notizia''.
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Career
Thais started her career in the fashion industry ...
(born 1985), Brazilian television presenter and model
* (born 1987), Dutch long distance runner
;Wichers
*Edward Wichers
Edward Wichers (March 25, 1892 – January 1984) was a US chemist and Associate Director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1958-62. He is notable for his work on atomic weights of the elements.
Edward Wichers graduated from Hope College ...
(1892–1984), American chemist
* (1902–1990), Dutch writer known as "Belcampo"
* (1887–1956), Dutch composer of marches
* Otto Wichers (born 1981), Dutch singer-songwriter
*Peter Wichers
Peter Wichers is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known as one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Soilwork. From 1995 until late 2005, when he announced his departure from the band, and again from 2008 un ...
(born 1979), Swedish heavy metal bass guitarist
See also
*Wigger (disambiguation) Wigger is a term for a white person who imitates African American culture.
Wigger may also refer to:
* A maker of wigs
* Wigger (surname)
* ''Wigger'' (novel), a 1974 William Goldman novel
* Wigger I, a tenth-century count of Bilstein, in modern ...
, including people with the surname Wigger
*Wiegers Wiegers is a Dutch patronymic surname. The given name ''Wieger'' is a forms of the Germanic Wichard, from Wîh- ("battle") and -hard ("strong"). , surname of the same origin
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